There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Ang Lee

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

H. P. Lovecraft

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Joyce Brothers

First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Bertrand Russell

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

Louise Slaughter

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Sarah Addison Allen

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike

Jacob Bronkowski

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Desi Arnaz

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Albert Camus